Many botanical gardens include a library on their campus. Below are Coloring books with links celebrating the history of plant research and botanical art, downloadable and ready to color for all ages.
Missouri Botanical Garden Coloring Book. From the Missouri Botanical Garden: The Missouri Botanical Garden’s Peter H. Raven Library is globally recognized as one of the most comprehensive libraries of botanical literature in the world. MissouriBotanicalGarden_ColorOurCollections_2018.pdf MissouriBotanicalGarden_ColorOurCollections_2019.pdf
The LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden Coloring Book
About the The LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden: The Mertz Library promotes the intelligent stewardship of the natural world by collecting and preserving works of merit in botany, horticulture and landscape design. The Library’s outstanding collections represent over a century of commitment to botanical and environmental research. The skilled staff of the Mertz Library serve as an invaluable resource by providing the highest-quality resources and services to meet the needs of the Garden’s diverse research, instructional and outreach programs including the Garden’s research staff, botanists and horticulturists as well as scientific, scholarly, and artistic communities worldwide and the public at large. https://www.nybg.org/learn/mertz-library/color-our-collections/
- 2024: John-Carter-Brown-Library-Coloring-Book-2024.pdf
- http://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/02/JohnCarterBrownLibrary_ColorOurCollections_2018.pdf
Royal Horticultural Society Libraries Coloring Book 2021 About the Royal Horticultural Society Libraries: RHS Libraries hold the world’s leading horticultural collections. Covering over 500 years of gardening history, the library holdings include historic and contemporary books on gardening, botanical artworks, photographs and the personal archives of a number of notable gardeners and garden designers – offering a unique insight into horticulture, both past and present. https://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/author/colorourcollections2019/
Botanical Research Institute of Texas Coloring Book
About the Botanical Research Institute of Texas: The Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) in Fort Worth, Texas is dedicated to conserving our natural heritage by deepening our knowledge of the plant world and achieving public understanding of the value plants bring to life. BRIT has an herbarium of nearly 1.5 million dried plant specimens and a library of nearly 100,000 botanical publications. These images are taken from the BRIT rare book and art collection of botanical works. https://fwbg.org/research/library-special-collections/color-our-collections/
NY Academy of Medicine. A Compendium of Coloring books.
I found the perfect art box/jewel case to hold art supplies at Daiso (a Japanese dollar store) for $1.99 and additionally botanical postcards to color.
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